Test 4 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

What would happen, Suleiman fears, if he showed off before the Queens?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Suleiman · What happens: happen, fear, show off

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 96 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fears	punct
5	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fears	nsubj
6	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 showed	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 showed	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 showed	nsubj
10	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fears	ccomp
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 showed	compound:prt
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 Queens	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Queens	det
14	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 showed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fear	present	Suleiman		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	show off a condition, not said to happen	past	Suleiman	before the Queens	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

He might be even more ashamed and the Animal from the sea would come back again

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ashamed	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ashamed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ashamed	cop
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 ashamed	amod
6	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Animal	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Animal	det
9	Animal	Animal	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ashamed	conj
10	from	from	SCONJ	_	14 come	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ashamed	advcl
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	He					ashamed property	tree rules
2	come back	would	the sea				again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He might be even more ashamed, and the Queens would never speak to him again

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ashamed	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ashamed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ashamed	cop
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 ashamed	amod
6	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 speak	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 speak	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queens	det
10	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 speak	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 speak	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 speak	advmod
13	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ashamed	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 speak	obl
16	again	again	ADV	_	13 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	He					ashamed property	tree rules
2	not speak speech: other	would	the Queens		him = he		again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

Option 3

He might be even more pleased

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pleased	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 pleased	cop
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 pleased	advmod
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	He					pleased property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He might be even more ashamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ashamed	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ashamed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ashamed	cop
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 ashamed	amod
6	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	He					ashamed property	tree rules

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